http://www.slate.com/id/2227216/?GT1=38001
thought some people might like to read this
cupcakes are here to stay in my humble opinion 
lol- I have no opinion (other than I find them SO much less stressful than cakes) but I have seen lots of members talk of hoping to open a Cupcakery and thought it might be something to read.
Heh, I was just on my way to post this, I thought it was interesting too!
I'm actually making cupcakes right now to take to the Farmer's Market tomorrow. They seem to do decent in that environment!
Funny! I just read that on my own.
It was fun to go to all the bakeries web sites and see what flavors they offer.
But nothing like the cupcake thread here!
can I ask why the title of my post was changed?
Interesting - Thanks for posting.
Personally I like cupcakes. I do find them less work and less stressful than a full-sized cake. Nevertheless I've been saying for a while that I wondered how long the craze would last. Will watch and see...
Frozen yoghurt anyone? 
This is nothing new. It's basic economics.
A new industry opens up.
It's great success.
It inspires others to jump on the bandwagon.
Bandwagon gets crowded.
Some people fall off of the bandwagon because it's too crowded.
It will not be surprising to see some of the cupcake shoppes get weeded out. It's a normal part of the business cycle.
Doesn't mean cupcakes are no longer the "trend" (see my blog on why I hate this term!). It just means the cupcake industry is going thru the same normal cycle that other industries go thru.
cupcakes for me are less stressful, I like making them, but then again I don't have a business. The largest amount I've made at once was 5 dozen, but putting a swirl of icing on instead of trying to get perfectly smooth icing on a cake is so much easier, and results in way less cussing on my part.. lol
I say pish-tosh to that cheeky man. Since we opened in Feb of last year, TWO cupcakeries have opened within a mile of our shop, and we are still sold nearly twice as many this August as last August. Now I have heard that the one that opened in January is faltering. Half of their staff has been in looking for a job in the last month.
Quality will win in the end, so if you have your cupcake mojo working, you can make some decent money selling them.
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